George L. Groft

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Husband George L. Groft ¹

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           Born: 3 Aug 1836 - Fayette Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Graft (Abt 1795-1855) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Lint (      -Bef 1906) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - George L. Groft

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He was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was educated in the common schools. At twenty-one he became a farmer, and later worked as a brickmaker, a cooper and a carpenter. The greater part of his life was spent in Sewickley and East Huntingdon townships, Westmoreland County. In July, 1863, he enlisted in Company I, Sixty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was subsequently transferred to Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Zouaves. He was wounded in the knee at Spottsylvania Court House, and at second Hatches Run, February 6, 1865, he was struck in the left temple by a minie ball which broke the skull. After the close of the war he was mustered out in Pittsburgh. October 1, 1903, he entered the postal service as one of the rural mail carriers of Scottdale, on route No. 1.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 547.

2 John M. Gresham, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: John M. Gresham & Co., 1889), Pg 355.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 555.